infraposition

From infra- +‎ position.

infraposition (uncountable)

1. A situation or state of being beneath something else.

   Antonyms: supraposition, superposition, superimposition

   • 1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack

     This floe is now more than two hundred and fifty yards long by four hundred wide; a size too large for infraposition of tables

2. (dentistry) A type of malposition of a tooth such that its occlusal surface falls short of the occlusal plane (that is, apical to it); an instance of such malposition.

   Antonym: supraposition

   Hypernyms: malposition < position

• “infraposition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.